February 2026

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Govt. invites bids for new $35M Capoey Nursery school, $25M to extend Mainstay Nursery

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Govt. invites bids for new $35M Capoey Nursery school, $25M to extend Mainstay Nursery

(Kaieteur News) – The government through the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Two is preparing to spend approximately $60 million to construct a new nursery school at Capoey Village,...

Sing a song every morning in school!

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Sing a song every morning in school!

(Kaieteur News) – Yesterday, when news came of the passing of Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, my mind did not first turn to party politics, nor to the familiar battles of our public life. Instead, I...

Auditor General: what happened to his cannons

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Auditor General: what happened to his cannons

(Kaieteur News) – The name of Guyana’s auditor general (AG) is circulating in the air. It is my tough duty to inform that neither the news nor the air is of the refreshing variety. The AG...

ANUG: On Guyana’s 56th Republic Birthday, Political cognoscenti, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine was called home

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on ANUG: On Guyana’s 56th Republic Birthday, Political cognoscenti, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine was called home

Dear Editor, It is with profound sorrow that A New and United Guyana (ANUG) learnt of the passing of Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, 83, earlier today, February 23, 2026. It is sweetly ironic that this...

Black leaders in the PPP

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Black leaders in the PPP

Dear Editor, We must speak fearlessly. We want level-minded, law-abiding and decent people in society to speak out when there are violations, for it comes back to what we say: “a threat to one is a...

Subscription Sovereignty: The High Cost of Paying for Permission to Exist

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on Subscription Sovereignty: The High Cost of Paying for Permission to Exist

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram’s recent defense of Guyana’s $224 million GYD annual lobbying bill (Feb 22) is a masterclass in the very “colonial mindset” that continues to tether our...

SN and the cost of living series

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on SN and the cost of living series

Dear Editor, One of the signature contributions of Stabroek News — now at Part 168 (February 2026) — is it’s long-running Series, “How the Cost of Living is Affecting People”. Long before...

I still cannot believe SN is closing

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Letters Comments Off on I still cannot believe SN is closing

Dear Editor, I still cannot believe that S.N will stop publishing. I can remember when this paper started and it was not a daily. Patricia at the corner of Regent and Wellington Street, made sure she...

Guyana at 56

Feb 24, 2026 KNEWS Editorial, News Comments Off on Guyana at 56

(Kaieteur News) – Yesterday, Guyana marked another Republic Day, a poignant reminder of the bold step taken on February 23, 1970, when this young nation severed its final constitutional ties to...

Rampaging Hetmyer, spinners seal West Indies’ massive win over Zimbabwe

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Sports Comments Off on Rampaging Hetmyer, spinners seal West Indies’ massive win over Zimbabwe

ESPNcricinfo – West Indies went on an unfettered big-hitting spree at the Wankhede Stadium, crushing Zimbabwe by 107 runs and sounding out a warning to other title-contenders in the 2026 T20...

Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, voice of justice and unity, passes at 83

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, voice of justice and unity, passes at 83

Kaieteur News – Guyana today mourns the passing of Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, a towering intellectual, activist, and politician whose life’s work shaped the nation’s political and cultural...

ExxonMobil hits highest daily production output in over 40 years

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on ExxonMobil hits highest daily production output in over 40 years

…cites Guyana as major contributor Kaieteur News – United States oil major, Exxon Mobil Corporation in 2025 hit its highest daily production in more than 40 years, with Guyana’s operations...

Pensioner killed in West Bank Demerara stabbing; suspect in custody

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Pensioner killed in West Bank Demerara stabbing; suspect in custody

Kaieteur News – A quiet Sunday evening at La Parfait Harmonie, West Coast Demerara, turned deadly when a father of four was allegedly stabbed to death by a man said to be of unsound mind. Dead...

Brazil’s Lula says Maduro should be tried in Venezuela, not abroad

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Brazil’s Lula says Maduro should be tried in Venezuela, not abroad

(Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that toppled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should face trial in his own country, not overseas. Maduro was captured...

Multi-billion Heroes Highway crumbling two years after commissioning

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Multi-billion Heroes Highway crumbling two years after commissioning

Kaieteur News – Sections of the Heroes Highway along the East Bank of Demerara are crumbling, owing to the use of substandard materials by the private contractor, Opposition Leader, Azruddin...

APNU hits the streets

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on APNU hits the streets

…says budget ignores the people Kaieteur News – In his first public appearance following his electoral defeat at the September 1, 2025 polls, leader of the People’s National Congress...

EPA issues ‘very unhealthy’ air quality warning as Saharan dust blankets coast

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on EPA issues ‘very unhealthy’ air quality warning as Saharan dust blankets coast

Kaieteur News – The Environmental Protection Agency Guyana (EPA) on Sunday issued a public health advisory warning that air quality across Guyana’s low coastal plain has reached “very...

Guyana, T&T energy talks spark push to reopen refinery

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Guyana, T&T energy talks spark push to reopen refinery

…Trini minister positions country as key energy partner Kaieteur News – The Government of Guyana has been engaging with the government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) to explore possible...

Four injured in early morning crash at Buxton

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Four injured in early morning crash at Buxton

Kaieteur News – Four persons were left nursing serious injuries following an accident along the Buxton Public Road, East Coast Demerara, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Despite the...

Bring back de tandem… but more modern

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bring back de tandem… but more modern

Kaieteur News – Dem boys seh sometimes the solution staring we in we face. But we too busy watching traffic jam to see it. Every morning is the same ole story. From Parika to Georgetown. From...

The NIS and Burnham

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Peeping Tom Comments Off on The NIS and Burnham

Kaieteur News – For a political party that erupts in indignation whenever the failures and excesses of Forbes Burnham are dragged into the limelight, the People’s National Congress (PNC)...

Mash 2026

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Features / Columnists, News, The GHK Lall Column Comments Off on Mash 2026

Kaieteur News – I see the colorful floats with sounds thundering through oversized speakers on flatbed trucks during the day. I hear the revelries deep into the dark night for many a night. ...

Wales GtE: tragedy or comedy

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS Editorial Comments Off on Wales GtE: tragedy or comedy

Kaieteur News – The Wales Gas-to-Energy (GtE) could do so much for Guyanese. Be easier on the pockets, enhance their confidence, help them to trust leaders. Trust based on decisions make,...

Essequibo carpenter fined $200k for DUI

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on Essequibo carpenter fined $200k for DUI

Kaieteur News – A forty-one-year-old carpenter of Huis T’ Dieren, Essequibo Coast, Region Two, has been fined $200,000 for a driving under the influence (DUI). Totaram Narine appeared...

E’bo construction worker fined $180k for traffic offences

Feb 23, 2026 KNEWS News Comments Off on E’bo construction worker fined $180k for traffic offences

Kaieteur News – Dwayne Stoby, a 38-year-old construction worker of Riverstown, Essequibo Coast was on Friday slapped with several traffic offences and was fined a total of $180,000. Stoby...

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Hope 162* beats Rahul 129* as West Indies pull off record chase

Oct 04, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Shai Hope spent the entirety of this seemingly never-ending match on the field, hobbling for the last third of his innings after having kept for 50 overs, and sealed West...

The price of prosperity

Oct 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In Guyana, there is a peculiar arithmetic to prosperity. The country announces itself as one of the fastest-growing economies in the hemisphere, a petroleum state that has been transformed almost overnight into a place of billion-dollar projects, expanding infrastructure and...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

What if

Oct 04, 2026

Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Brace for what’s coming, my fellow Guyanese. A bit off the beaten track. Here goes. What if the U.S. as a matter of immigration policy would experiment with visa-free travel for Guyanese? A kind of seasonal work permit, along the lines that used to be...

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